cultural imperialism

Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
- Ralph Waldo Emmerson
This past Friday, PayPal informed Alex Jones' Infowars it was severing ties with the website and that it had ten days to find an alternative payment processor. The news transported me back to that summer day a little over six years ago when I first acutely recognized the power and potential of Bitcoin, and then publicly decided to embrace it.

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.
- Potter Stewart, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.